Palacio diabetes screenings

GEORGE TULEY/SPECIAL TO THE CALLER-TIMES Alicia Ramos gets her blood pressure taken by a worker with the Healthy Living & Advocacy Center at the Palacio Residencial apartment complex on Thursday. The advocacy center provided free diabetes screenings at the complex. About 17 percent of people in Nueces and San Patricio Counties are estimated to have diabetes, nearly twice the state average, according to the Texas Department of Health and Human Services. Nearly one in six people has the disease, which has killed hundreds in the Coastal Bend.

GEORGE TULEY/SPECIAL TO THE CALLER-TIMES Maria de los Angelos gets her blood pressure measured by a community health worker with the Healthy Living & Advocacy Center at the Palacio Residencial on Thursday.

GEORGE TULEY/SPECIAL TO THE CALLER-TIMES Sarah Smith (from left) with the Healthy Living & Advocacy Center measures the blood sugar Thursday of Maria Cisneros with Diana Alvear taking video of the event at Palacio Residencial.

GEORGE TULEY/SPECIAL TO THE CALLER-TIMES Alicia Ramos has her blood sugar measured by Sarah Smith with the Healthy Living & Advocacy Center at the Palacio Residencial on Thursday. About 17 percent of people in Nueces and San Patricio Counties are estimated to have diabetes, nearly twice the state average, according to the Texas Department of Health and Human Services. Nearly one in six people has the disease, which has killed hundreds in the Coastal Bend.

GEORGE TULEY/SPECIAL TO THE CALLER-TIMES Fred Rangel looks over his personal information while waiting to have his blood pressure and blood sugar measured by personnel with the Healthy Living & Advocacy Center at the Palacio Residencial apartment complex as Alicia Ramos (left) talks with Letti Luna who works at the Palacio Residencial.

GEORGE TULEY/SPECIAL TO THE CALLER-TIMES The Healthy Living & Advocacy Center offered information on healthy living at the Palacio Residencial on Thursday, including information from the Texas Diabetes Council in English and Spanish as well as a CD on the additional dangers to diabetics from smoking.

GEORGE TULEY/SPECIAL TO THE CALLER-TIMES Romina De La Garza has her blood pressure measured by Sarah Smith with the Healthy Living & Advocacy Center at the Palacio Residencial apartment complex on Thursday.

GEORGE TULEY/SPECIAL TO THE CALLER-TIMES Reginado Hinojosa received a thumbs-up for his blood pressure after community health worker Sarah Smith measure it Thursday.

GEORGE TULEY/SPECIAL TO THE CALLER-TIMES Residents at the Palacio Residencial in Corpus Christi wait in line to have their blood pressure and blood sugar tested Thursday.

GEORGE TULEY/SPECIAL TO THE CALLER-TIMES Community health worker Sarah Smith with the Healthy Living & Advocacy Center fits a blood pressure meter to the arm of Olivia Chapa on Thursday.

GEORGE TULEY/SPECIAL TO THE CALLER-TIMES Elsa Benavides gets her blood sugar level tested by Sarah Smith with the Healthy Living & Advocacy Center at the Palacio Residencial on Thursday.